Of detective Sherlock

Usage examples of holmesian.

Up until now he had never realized the devilish cruelty inherent in that simple command to apply the Holmesian methods.

It was what no one, with the exception of Ingold, had ever understood about her - her delight in knowledge for its own sake, in the Holmesian reconstruction of long-vanished events, and her nosing quest for the uttermost roots of the world.

The two fell into flowchart, Holmesian deduction, tapping panels, toggling switches, volleying terms, injecting patches, and cross-referencing their way through the massive metal-bound manual with masochistic relish.

It is a well-known Holmesian adage that, once you have eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains, no matter how unlikely it might appear, must be the truth.

Later in the story the Holmesian influence was apparent in an episode involving a street Arab, akin to the Baker Street Irregulars so beloved of Holmes, who helped Blake track down a kidnap victim.

I did not get to use any of my Holmesian techniques, for the keys were in an obvious place.

Feeling Holmesian, I examined every inch of both back and front doorframes and all the windowsills with my magnifying glass.

Nero Wolfe uses his Holmesian powers of observation and deduction to solve crimes that have baffled, or will soon baffle, the New York police force.

They made her feel as if each one of the Godmothers held a magnifying glass and was subjecting her to a silent, full-spectrum, Sherlock Holmesian examination.

And from that day onward he had been looking for a classic Sherlock Holmesian dog-in-the-night sort of lead, something that would scream Colonel Mustard with the candlestick in the library.

Inverness cape over his tweedy sports coat and had a Holmesian deerstalker cap on his head at a slightly skewed angle.

Lyme Regis or that his dog has beriberi or any of that Holmesian nonsense.

For their excursion dirtside, Aari had removed his Holmesian baseball caps and pipe in favor of a colorful scarf tied around the top of his head and a plaskin patch, inked black, over one of his eyes.

Though he was giving the soil a very Holmesian inspection, what he could see of it from where they stood.

He was wearing an Inverness cape over his tweedy sports coat and had a Holmesian deerstalker cap on his head at a slightly skewed angle.